Monday, January 31, 2011

Tiger mums not great for human children

Have parents become too afraid of tough love? Tim Soutphommasane, The Australian
Tim Soutphommasane asks in The Australian "Have parents become too afraid of tough love?"
"THREE years ago, journalist Lenore Skenazy wrote a column in The New York Sun about letting her nine-year-old son ride the New York subway on his own. ...Overnight it made her "America's worst mom". ..."Skenazy may now have to move over. America has a new "worst mom", Amy Chua. A law professor at Yale University, Chua has written Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a memoir that celebrates the strict regimen of "Chinese" parenting."

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